And Englishmen like posing as gods.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Now that I've reached 50, it has become important for me to sleep and wake up at my own pace. Otherwise, I'm completely zapped.

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.